motor/sp/ort - Step It Up Edition

>>74978833
>Larson wins another pole
>The Destroyer starts in P6

G'damn.....looks like Ganassi finally managed to pull their head out of their ass.

>>74979101

Qualification got rained out.

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Completely missed the 2017 919 and 2017 TS050 reveals

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/porsche-919-9r9-my15/

Some stuff I'm following this weekend:
Blancpain Sprint
Quali Race - GMT 18:40 sat
Main Race - GMT 10:30 sunday
https://www.youtube.com/user/gt1world

24 HR Series Silverstone - 13:30 sat https://livestream.com/accounts/2362362

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Missed a load of news.

>Porsche and Toyota make a "gentlemen's agreement" to freeze their chassis development through 2019
>WEC Prologue at Monza this weekend will see the first testing of the new "automated-BOP" process for the 2017 WEC season; system overview expected this week
>All of the customer Porsche 911 RSRs are running to 2015-specification worldwide, according to Head of Porsche Motorsport Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser, who said it was a cost driven decision. “As there was the openness, and you would have to balance them anyway, we will use the ’15 car,” he told Sportscar365. “We will see. It’s more difficult on the [GTE]-Am side than the [GTE]-Pro side.”

>>74981279
Forgot about BSS. Totally lost without the wallplanner for this year, might have to make my own.

Blancpain quali is live and isn't geo blocked in the US!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C43Whe0Fkw4

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>>74982922
lel a little late on that one but no geo-block is good news

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Sorry for potato quality

Ford GT is turning me deaf

Anyone gonna watch the trucks today
>tfw no xfinity

>>74983385
nice. Do the P1s seem to be struggling with corner grip? They've had to drop a lot of aero and are projected to be 3-4s/lap slower at Le Mans this year.

>http://joegibbsracing.com/
wew

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>tfw the Rebellion WEC livery is shit

Lel Suarez

>>74984043

Holy fucking shit.

>>74984043
It's funny and saddening at the same time.

>smacking into the wall on a formation lap

Silverstone 24h about to kick off.

>>74984340

cheers

Silverstone 24h Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clJJHUHACJU

Live Timing
https://livetiming.getraceresults.com/24htces#screen-results
Entry List
http://www.24htceseries.com/2017/24h-silverstone-2017/entry-list

prototypes are too ugly to watch

Love Martinsville. It should be a single file restart track tho.

Dat South Carolina truck

>Chase Sauter Peters Crafton
Lame

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>Cup driver on pole

I wish more teams painted their wheels to match their paint schemes. Penske routinely has the sexiest cars and the wheels always look good.

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>tfw watching practice

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>coughlin outqualified by TJ Bell's shitmobile

Truck coverage starting on FOX right now

>>74985529
kys my man

is ther an xfinity race today?

Blancpain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir_E8cWpXY8

>>74986352
He is barely good enough to be a cup driver so ill let it slide

>>74984487
Why there is no spectator ?

It's sad

>>74987583
BIGONE

>>74987520
Xfinity is off this weekend

>>74987583
Geez what a mess.

>>74987583
what the fuck is going on

>>74987520
trucks today.

need truck thread

>>74988044
>>74988044

trucks thread

>***Defending LMP2 World Champion Gustavo Menezes told Sportscar365 that LMP1 cars have struggled to pass their Signatech Alpine A470 on the straight and are only able to overtake under braking and under acceleration, when the hybrid systems are fully activated.
Bravo, FIA/ACO

>>74984043
>Jayski is dead and ruined forever
Made me sad

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>>74978833
why is this considered sport? guy just sits in his car. exactly like chess

>>74988623
Yeah this is really odd. Who hype for LMP2s beating P1s down the Mulsanne straight.

>>74988934
Chess is /sp/

>>74988934
Racing is more of a sport than Croatia is a country

>>74989162
holy fuck that told.

>>74989162
yeah i know. thats exactly what im saying

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>>74983694
Lmp2 had more problems with pitch in the breaking zone, lmp1 were always smooth.
Only in high speed corners they lost sometimes the rear in acceleration

based maldonado

>>74989154
>Who hype for LMP2s beating P1s down the Mulsanne straight.
They'll just choke down on the Gibsons.

Will NASCAR ever see a big boom period like in the early 2000's?

>ratings were up
>races were all on network tv
>a-list celebs at the track every week
>go or go home cars

are we doomed to follow the path of indycar?

>>74992687

I have a theory that NASCAR and the NBA cannot both be popular at the same time.

If you look at NASCAR's boom period, it coincides with the NBA's Allen Iverson period where they had a thug image and white people didn't want to watch. Now the NBA has LeBron and a huge TV deal with ESPN and is kicking ass while NASCAR has few transcendent stars and is being relegated back to cable.

>>74992687

maybe if they get rid of

Brian France
The Chase

in this order

Anything on right now??

>Cindric fucked up the truck race
As expected of that faggot

>>74992687
Television is a dead medium.

Streaming is where it's at.

I would gladly pay for a quality direct stream WITHOUT ANY FUCKING COMMERCIALS.

Television broadcasting is going to eventually die, and that's a good thing.

Spee's April Fool's joke is SKEEEUP. This board sucks.

NEWS NEWS NEWS
DANICA ENGAGED TO RICKY STENHAUSER
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSXMhIpjNnX/

Pregnancy to save her from embarrassing end to her career

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>>74995857
>tfw no mommy driver gf

>>74995807
Posted this right before the /a/ merger. It was fun. The weeaboos taught me about anime.

>>74995857
Is it a joke or not?

If consecutive digits, Danica will keep her last name or hyphenate. If triples, Ricky will hyphenate and become Ricky Patrick-Stenhouse like the ultimate cuck.

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>>74995857
>>74996001
IT'S HAPPENING

>>74996036
>>74995857
>zero wins: the NASCAR romance

This is the kind of media stunt that could get one of them in victory lane. It would be the perfect story... Danica is good at Martinsville.

>>74996084
28th in happy hour
She'll be -3 laps by the end of stage 2

>>74996098
Top 30? She's fucking killing it. Men BTFO

>>74996098
The perfect strategy. No one will see it coming.

>>74996084
Dicky Steakhouse is bretty gud at Bristol, which is in a few weeks and Danicles is decent at the road courses. They don't want to make their wins too obvious or coincidental so expect them to win at those tracks.

>>74996191
Danica will win the 400 at Daytona in July
Bowyer will push her to the win

ricky is actually a really nice guy in real life. good for him i guess

Watching Formula E for the first time. A guy literally just pulled in the garage and jumped into another car and went back out. Is this normal?

>>74996246
dunno but its a shit series desu

>>74996246
Yes. Formula E is a bigger meme than F1. "muh sustainability" but they can't even race one for the entire race. Also >fanboost

Anyone who tells you FE is enjoyable to watch is lying and/or stupid enough to think F1 is good and that all the "overtaking" that actually happens in FE compared to F1 is noteworthy.

>>74996263
>The FanBoost is a concept introduced by the FIA in the Formula E Championship to give the three "most popular" drivers a temporary boost in power in each ePrix.

What the actual fuck

>>74996287
Brian fucking France better not catch wind of its existence or that shit is coming to NASCAR

>>74996246
Also take note of all the unnecessary chicanes and tighter course so it looks like the cars are going fast.

>>74996337
I actually thought they were under safety car for a second when they weren't kek.

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will there ever be a bigger shill in motorsports?

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hnnngg

>>74996496
looks like a moving truck

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We anime in Europe for the 10th anniversary of GSR

>>74992687
>>74992779

The Boom was really down to the drama of who would take over from Dale Sr as king of the sport, Dale Jr was still huge and the races were exciting as fuck with good cars and drivers. The problems started falling off as with every motorsport when someone started emerging and getting too dominant like JJ so people would turn off because "Jimmie wins lol" like they turned off with "Schumi wins lol", "Rossi Wins lol", "Loeb wins lol" "Vettel Wins lol" in other top level motorsport series which also had huge ratings hits. You add in the global recessions and increased cost in lower level teams trying to make it to races and ticket prices being priced out of reach to the same blue collar man that made the sport and it's fucked.

Especially since France didn't really give a shit about the recession because as far as he cared. NASCAR was booming, F1 and Moto were starving so fuck them. Now NASCAR is in a massive rut, the boomers that made up its audience are dying. Gen X barely cares unless they were brought up in a NASCAR family and Millenials just see it as redneck trumpland and won't bother (Even though last year's cup winner is a registered Democrat). Ticket prices are down. The title Sponsorship was Coke doing France a massive favor by convincing the Monster Energy Execs to take a massive chance on the series for a severely reduced price and a chance to bail in two years if it doesn't work and the money is starting to disappear.

France is acting oblivious. The problems in F1 are so bad they are churning through teams and hoping the new owners give some stability. And as long as he keeps acting oblivious and not going down to Races to see the stands being empty during Truck/Xfinity and only Daytona selling out during Cup then he will never figure it out.

>>74997327
The ticket prices and on track product have been a scam. It costs a ridiculous amount of money for almost nothing in return compared to an IMSA or Indycar weekend. Hell, PWC is fine too if you're by a track but the NASCAR ticket price is meant for rich people.

morning lads

>>74997420

No one even noticed Circle Sport's was start and parking for the entire west coast swing. Or knowing NASCAR, probably forbidding the media to talk about it. No one has started and parked in Cup since the 90's so that's another embarrassing fact for France (Even if it's "who cares, it's Jeffery Earnhardt")

>>74996928
>The news comes on the heels of the announcement that SRO Motorsports Group and Super GT series organizer GT Association will join forces to hold the first joint GT3/GT300 ten-hour race at Suzuka in 2018.
I see that Ratel's plan for world domination is on the right track

>>74996510
all lmp cars have been hideous for a while now

>>74997473
>No one has started and parked in Cup since the 90's
What did he mean by this?

>>74997473
Did you watch NASCAR in 2009? There were at least three start and park teams every week. This is a modern era problem.

The charter system was supposed to do away with this shit. The 33 team has a guaranteed qualifying position but they're parking anyway. The way Derrike Cope is racing, I expect him to follow suit.

Other teams like BK Racing do not start and park but they crash out every week. It's essentially the same thing but it gets their sponsor on tv for a minute.

>>74997473
>Circle Sport's was start and parking for the entire west coast swing
They finished 6 laps down at Vegas, went out early at Phoenix, but from what I could was an actual problem, and ran half of Auto Club. Hardly start and parking.

Martinsville thread

>>75002139
>>75002139

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Have you guys seen these 2018 designs out of Indycar? It's open wheel again!

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>>75006852

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Pls watch our league.

>>74996287
Fanboost is a smoke and mirrors gimmick for twitter faggots, it isn't even useful because of the extra battery drain.

>>74997327
F1 is actually pretty stable. It has the same teams as 2003 except Haas instead of Toyota. The three expansion teams that came in on the cost cap meme ate shit but the bottom teams outside the top 9 or 10 always eat shit due to lack of exposure or value.

Super Aguri, Arrows, Prost, Tyrell, Lola, Forti, Larrouse, Pacific, Simtek, Lotus, Scuderia Italia, Brabham, March, Andrea Moda, etc. such is Formula 1.

>>75006852
>>75006863
the bargeboard shits look dumb still

>>75009168
just be glad they haven't bought into the huge sharkfin fad and got rid of the air conditioner unit rear wings

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>>75006852
>>75006863
Much improved. Upper roll hoop area is very Champcar. Sidepods are very Formula E. Tiny front wing is very Holy Shit if they race that at road courses the racing might be fuckin amazing, alas thats probably the superspeedway front wing.

>>75009798
>air conditioner unit rear wings
fucking top kek

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God damn these things are ugly

>>75012591
>winning a grandfather clock
This can't be real.

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>>75012611
It's real anon I assure you

>>75012611

>never heard of martinsville

educate yourself, bong

>>75012591
This grandfather clock is probably worth more than the car I drive. Feels bad.